OUTDOOR ADVENTURE: Glaciated Nature Trail

It is rare to find an undeveloped nature trail formed by a mile high glacier which melted 10,000 years ago in the Chequamegan National Forest. Our private nature trail is over one mile long taking you, up a KAME- hill, next to a SPHAGNUM MOSS SWAMP, through a BIRCH CATHEDRAL, along an ESKER- ridge, and around a KETTLE-pit.

KAME (hill)

Kames are conical hills formed by debris deposited by meltwater flowing into funnel shaped holes in the ice.

ESKER (ridge)

Eskers, serpentine ridges of gravel and sand, probably mark stream channels under stagnant ice sheets that formed Lost Land Lake.

KETTLE (pit)

Kettles are surface depressions formed as sand and gravel settled over a melting ice block. Sometimes we have croaking frogs in the water in the kettle.